Originally Posted by
WE Branch Fanatic
Why did you bring BREXIT (officially EU EXIT) and fisheries protection onto this thread?
Cutback have left 12 fishery protection vessels and few naval vessels to patrol waters close to UK. It is relevant as some will be running and saying we have a fishing industry and no foreign vessels and realise if it is just UK owned and operated vessels then little fish coming ashore.
Is a coop a legal entity? If so it can be prosecuted? I thought most fishing vessels were owned by companies, which can be prosecuted.
There are electronic means (such as AIS) to keep tabs on vessels.
Keeping tabs is easy assumming they never turned off, proving they fishing is something different. How exactly can you prove a Cod is caught in UK or EU waters ?
A Coop is a legal organisation owned by its members, UK fishermen had them.
Hopefully you will agree that it would be disastrous for fish stocks and the wider maritime environment if vessels could fish in the UK EEZ without the RN (on behalf of DEFRA) or the SFPA having enforcement powers?
It is a good job UK holders of quotas have been above the law. Oh wait maybe not.
https://unearthed.greenpeace.org/201...-michael-gove/